Re: Linux WiFi Manualthe F

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on 7/20/2007 2:46 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 14:24 -0700, David Boles wrote:
>> on 7/20/2007 2:12 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 16:30 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
>>>> Aaron Konstam wrote:
>>>> http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/latd810/en/index.htm
>>>>
>>>> That took all of a few seconds to locate. :)
>>> I have that manual but try to find the following in that manual::
>>> 1. What wifi card it has?
>>> 2. What sound card it has?
>>> 3. Any information about other compoonennts?
>>> 4. What fn keys do?
>>> 5. etc, etc, and so forth
>>>> It took a few more seconds to google for lwifi card it has
>>>> inux chm viewers, install
>>>> gnochm (one of several available in the Fedora repos), and open the
>>>> user guide.
>>>>
>>>> You're doomed if you expect tech support to be very useful.  It's far
>>>> easier to just search the site.
>> This sounds like a really good argument to not buy a Dell computer 'of the
>> shelf'.  ;-)
> No, Dell  makes very good computers  but you need to know what you are
> doing. You can get a computer  customized with a sticker made in Korea.
> Well actually only the parts are made in Korea but they are assembled
> here. You can get them to put any device card you want, and configure
> other things. Therefore, there is no way they 
> can tell you what cards you have in your machine in a manual.
> But if you just go with the default you can get screwed or surprised.
> The first Dell I had was ordered with 1 gig drive, and sure enough in
> Windows that is what showed. When I installed Linux I found it was a 2G
> drive. They just substituted the larger drive because that is what they 
> had available.

You did see the smiley   ;-)   didn't you Aaron?  That's why I put there.
I was trying to lighten the conversation with a little humor.

> And to Tod the original post said I could find out which Wifi card I had
> from the manual. My  response was really meant to say that you can't all
> the time.


-- 

  David

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